"A Talent Spotlight," the countywide talent show featuring acts from four area high schools, will take the stage this weekend.

The noncompetitive talent showcase will begin at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 5, at Odell Williamson Auditorium on the Brunswick Community College Campus. Winning acts from recent talent shows at West Brunswick, South Brunswick, North Brunswick and Early College high schools will perform.

Admission is $5 at the door. Children 6 and younger will be admitted free.

Jasmine Jackson made two free throws in the final 9.3 seconds and West Brunswick overcame injuries to two players in the final 2 minutes to beat West Bladen 61-59 Feb. 3 in a conference basketball game.

Jackson scored a season-high 29 points and had 24 rebounds. She also had six steals, two assists and one blocked shot.

Kayla Padgett scored 21 points and had 14 rebounds. She also had two steals and two blocked shots.

BOILING SPRING LAKES—Three South Brunswick High School football players signed national letters of intent Feb. 2 in the school library.

Terrell Stanley will be going to East Carolina University as a defensive tackle for the Pirates. Cam Scott will be heading across the country to Reedley College in California, located just outside of Fresno, and will be a wide receiver for the Tiger football program. Devante Stanley will travel up Interstate 40 and on over to Raleigh to play linebacker for the Saint Augustine’s Falcons.

The third annual Brunswick Stew & Que slated for this Saturday has been postponed until April 16 due to concerns about the weather.

The competitive Brunswick stew cook-off, sponsored by the Brunswick County Chamber of Commerce, was scheduled for this Saturday at Planet Fun in Shallotte. It has been cancelled, it was announced Thursday, because the weather forecast is calling for rain and inclement weather.

For more than a week, DSS chairman and county commissioner Charles Warren had been in possession of a public document, which belongs to the Department of Social Services.

On Wednesday, Jan. 26, Warren removed three audio recordings of DSS meetings from interim DSS director Neil Walter’s possession. Warren then returned two audio recordings—the November and December meeting recordings—but still had the January audio recording, claiming he is the custodian of the document, in this case the audio recording, because he is chairman.

At the age of 12, one springer spaniel’s career of locating lost and missing people has come to an end.

On Saturday, Jan. 22, Brunswick County’s first search and rescue dog, Sir Bailey of Judah, retired after more than 11 years on the job.

Bailey, as he is commonly called, was born on May 11, 1998, and began obedience and search and rescue training the same year. In 1999 he became Brunswick County’s first certified search and rescue dog and a founding member of Brunswick Search & Rescue (BSAR).